Howard Lutnick: “The moves demonstrated an effort to end 'the nanny state.'”

They wanted to walk away. This is politics only. If you think I ever said the words French, do I care about how the Quebecois speak? I mean, what could matter less to America? We don’t care. So the fact is, we never thought those words up.

These are your 232 tariffs, the steel tariffs, at work.

When someone doesn’t want the deal, they make up and say, “Oh, I’ll do the deal with you only if you wear green. And you’re like, ‘But I’m wearing, I’m not wearing green.’ Oh, sorry, it’s not going to work out.

‘are you actually trying to blow this up?’ And his answer to me was, ‘I’m not allowed to say that.’